THE SPECTATOR, WITH HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE, AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. A NEW EDITION, IN EIGHT VOLUMES. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. RICHARDSON AND Co.; G. OFFOR; T. TEGG; 1823. Library அங்கம் THE SPECTATOR. N° 322. MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1711-12. Ad humum mærore gravi deducit et angit. HOR. Ars. Poet. v. 110. Grief wrings her soul, and bends it down to earth. FRANCIS. It is often said, after a man has heard a story with extraordinary circumstances, it is a very good one, if it be true:' but as for the following relation, I should be glad were I sure it were false. It is told with such simplicity, and there are so many artless touches of distress in it, that I fear it comes too much from the heart. 6 MR. SPECTATOR, SOME years ago it happened that I lived in the same house with a young gentleman of merit, with whose good qualities I was so much taken, as to make it my endeavour to shew as many as I was able in myself. Familiar converse improved general civilities into an unfeigned passion on both sides. He watched an opportunity to declare himself to me; and I, who could not expect a man of so great an estate as his, received his addresses in such |